Unboxing Instruments - Crwth
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2020
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Today's Episode: The Welsh Crwth
Built by Ken Koons, 2017
The crwth, the whole crwth, and nothing but the crwth! This traditional Welsh bowed lyre has a few unique features: nearly-flat bridge, re-entrant tuning, and one of the bridge feet goes through a sound hole and touches the back of the instrument, acting as both bridge and soundpost! There's no way to know how old the bowed lyre tradition is (as opposed to plucked lyres, which are even older), but instruments like the crwth almost definitely predates 1000 AD. The crwth was overshadowed by the violin over the course of the 17th century, but is enjoying a resurgence alongside the Welsh language, and other cultural phenomena unique to Wales. 
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This is great, its difficult to find examples of the historical crwth played on yt. Just a thing tho, Alawon just means tunes, so “Alawon John Thomas” just means John Thomas’ Tunes, and is a collection of tunes at the national library of wales
This is wonderful, Niccolo! I want to show this to my elementary school music students! This whole series would be great to share with them. I have a crwth that I made in high school. It's very crude compared to your beautiful instrument (and heavy, since I split off part of a huge tree trunk and hollowed it out with chisels). I play it the same way.
Nicco, this is great! Back in the late 60s a ballad singer friend, Barry o"Niell, commissioned another friend to build him a crwth. Barry was just figuring out what to do with it when somebody stole it of all things. This is the first I've heard it played since then. Bring it along next time you're at the Amherst Festival.
I am waiting for the Pontic Lyra unboxing...
Thank you for the video, amazing instrument. I found interesting that the tuning on the upper 4 chords is similar to Biber's Resurrection sonata and was used up to the mid XX in fiddles around Transylvania and Wallachia in folk music, and also in Turkey It offers a wide range of intervals, including playing octaves with one finger.
omg you look so good on that suit
i’m saying nothing but the truth here
Yay Niccolo! I might show this to my students if allowed.
Great presentation of a very interesting instrument. But after having seen many different videos on this instrument, I still wonder, is it impossible to play in other keys or only with certain tunings? For years now I'm looking for a stringed instrument that can play chords but also in every key. I've looked at the viola da gamba, viola da braccia en viola d'amore but the crwth looks like it should almost be able to play in other chords when omiting the drone strings.
Ah, the instrument you're looking for is the lirone. Check my videos for Alta Visconte or Prexonera for that one. All 12 keys, limited 3-4-voice polyphony
@@NiccoloSeligmann Ah, thanks for your response. I actually have some sort of lirone instrument but it broke due to limited build quality. But still, it looks like that instrument might be what I'm looking for :)
You play this alaw/tune fluently. Where does the information about tunings come from?
Not how I'm used to seeing crwths tuned? G octaves off the board then Cs and Ds?
What kind of strings do you use?
Gamut gut strings
Does he still make these?
Sure does! www.koonsinstruments.com/order-and-contact/